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violet · cool

#922dfd

a balanced, electric violet · cool · closest name: Blue Violet

Token name suggestion: Studio Amethyst

RGB
146, 45, 253
HSL
269°, 98%, 58%
CMYK
42, 82, 0, 1
Luminance
0.1508

#922dfd is a balanced electric violet, 269° on the wheel and 67/100 on the cool side. Put white text on it (5.23:1). As text it scores 5.23:1 on white — safe at any size. Nearest name is Blue Violet, nearest Tailwind family is violet.

hsl(269 98% 58%)rgb(146 45 253)Base step 500AA inkCool

At a glance

Every number on this page in one read: what #922dfd is made of, how bright it looks, and which way it leans.

Hex
#922dfd
Hue
269°
violet
Saturation
98%
electric
Lightness
58%
balanced
Brightness
99%
HSV value
Perceived
48%
weighted brightness
Luminance
0.1508
WCAG relative
Temperature
Cool
67/100 cool
Color family
Violet
Tone
Electric
Best ink
White
5.23:1
Closest name
Blue Violet
ΔE2000 3.9
Chroma
113.5
LCH, 0–130ish
OKLCH L
0.568
perceptual lightness
Tailwind
violet
500 · ΔE 8.3
Web-safe
#9933FF
nearest of 216
Where it sits
Hue269° of 360°
Saturation98%
Lightness58%
Saturation × lightness field

Left edge is grey, right edge is full chroma; top is white, bottom is black. The dot is #922dfd.

Temperature
Warm ← → Cool67% cool

Reads cool. Warm and cool siblings keep the same lightness, so you can swap one in without redoing your contrast maths.

Luminance by channel
Red41%
Green12%
Blue47%

Green carries most of what the eye calls brightness — that is why WCAG weights it 0.7152.

Every format

HEX#922dfd
HEX (8-digit)#922dfdff
RGBrgb(146, 45, 253)
RGBArgba(146, 45, 253, 1)
HSLhsl(269, 98%, 58%)
HSV / HSBhsv(269, 82%, 99%)
HWBhwb(269 18% 1%)
CMYKcmyk(42%, 82%, 0%, 1%)
LABlab(45.7 76.3 -84.1)
LCHlch(45.7 113.5 312.2)
OKLCHoklch(0.568 0.275 298.7)
XYZ (D65)xyz(30.52, 15.08, 94.21)
Decimal9580029
Display P3color(display-p3 0.573 0.176 0.992)
Web-safe#9933FF

Copy-ready code

every platformclick to select
/* CSS */
color: #922dfd;
background-color: #922dfd;
/* CSS custom property */
--brand: #922dfd;
/* Tailwind (arbitrary) */
class="text-[#922dfd] bg-[#922dfd]"
/* SCSS */
$brand: #922dfd;
/* SwiftUI */
Color(red: 0.573, green: 0.176, blue: 0.992)
/* UIKit */
UIColor(red: 0.573, green: 0.176, blue: 0.992, alpha: 1)
/* Android XML */
<color name="brand">#922DFD</color>
/* Android Compose */
Color(0xFF922DFD)
/* Flutter */
Color(0xFF922DFD)
/* Python / OpenCV (BGR) */
(253, 45, 146)
/* Python / PIL (RGB) */
(146, 45, 253)
/* Java AWT */
new Color(146, 45, 253)
/* .NET */
Color.FromArgb(255, 146, 45, 253)
/* OpenGL / Unity (0–1) */
(0.5725f, 0.1765f, 0.9922f, 1f)
/* LaTeX */
\definecolor{brand}{RGB}{146,45,253}
modern cssclick to select
/* mix without leaving CSS */
background: color-mix(in oklab, #922dfd 85%, white);
border-color: color-mix(in oklab, #922dfd 40%, transparent);
/* theme-aware in one line */
color: light-dark(#3E017E, #E0D3EE);
/* relative colour syntax */
--hover: hsl(from #922dfd h s calc(l - 7));

Design tokens

The same ramp in the four formats a team actually needs. Paste one and the whole palette lands with it.

css custom propertiesclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: #F7F1FD;
  --brand-100: #EFE3FC;
  --brand-200: #DDC1FB;
  --brand-300: #C590FE;
  --brand-400: #A858FD;
  --brand-500: #922dfd;
  --brand-600: #7702F2;
  --brand-700: #6302CA;
  --brand-800: #4F02A2;
  --brand-900: #3C0674;
  --brand-950: #250449;
  --brand: #922dfd;
  --brand-ink: #ffffff;
  --brand-surface: #F7F4FA;
  --brand-border: #D6C0ED;
  --brand-hover: #7F09FD;
  --brand-pressed: #6E02E0;
}
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) {
  :root {
    --brand-surface: #1C1424;
    --brand-ink: #E0D3EE;
  }
}
tailwind.config.jsclick to select
theme: {
  extend: {
    colors: {
      brand: {
        50: '#F7F1FD',
        100: '#EFE3FC',
        200: '#DDC1FB',
        300: '#C590FE',
        400: '#A858FD',
        500: '#922dfd',
        600: '#7702F2',
        700: '#6302CA',
        800: '#4F02A2',
        900: '#3C0674',
        950: '#250449',
        DEFAULT: '#922dfd',
      },
    },
  },
}
scss mapclick to select
$brand: (
  '50': #F7F1FD,
  '100': #EFE3FC,
  '200': #DDC1FB,
  '300': #C590FE,
  '400': #A858FD,
  '500': #922dfd,
  '600': #7702F2,
  '700': #6302CA,
  '800': #4F02A2,
  '900': #3C0674,
  '950': #250449,
);
$brand-base: #922dfd;
$brand-ink: #ffffff;

@function brand($step) { @return map-get($brand, $step); }
w3c design tokens (json)click to select
{
  "color": {
    "brand": {
      "50": { "$value": "#F7F1FD", "$type": "color" },
      "100": { "$value": "#EFE3FC", "$type": "color" },
      "200": { "$value": "#DDC1FB", "$type": "color" },
      "300": { "$value": "#C590FE", "$type": "color" },
      "400": { "$value": "#A858FD", "$type": "color" },
      "500": { "$value": "#922dfd", "$type": "color" },
      "600": { "$value": "#7702F2", "$type": "color" },
      "700": { "$value": "#6302CA", "$type": "color" },
      "800": { "$value": "#4F02A2", "$type": "color" },
      "900": { "$value": "#3C0674", "$type": "color" },
      "950": { "$value": "#250449", "$type": "color" }
    },
    "brandInk": { "$value": "#ffffff", "$type": "color" }
  }
}

Best text color

Only one of black and white can be right. This is the one, with the number that proves it.

Readable at a glance#ffffff on #922dfd · 5.23:1
Use #ffffffAA at every size, AAA for large text only.
Aa
12px
Aa
16px
Aa
24px
Aa
White text · 5.23:1 · recommended
AA pass · AA large pass · AAA fail
Aa
Black text · 4.02:1
AA fail · AA large pass · AAA fail
Reading the other direction: #922dfd as text scores 5.23:1 on white and 4.02:1 on black.
Best tinted ink on it, if plain black or white feels flat: #F2E6FF at 4.37:1.

Make it accessible

A contrast checker tells you that you failed. This tells you what to ship instead — same hue, same saturation, lightness moved only as far as WCAG demands.

The quick fox
#922dfd · 5.23:1
AA on whitealready passes
#922dfd
The quick fox
#7302EA · 7.18:1
AAA on white−12% L
#7302EA
The quick fox
#9C41FD · 4.59:1
AA on black+4% L
#9C41FD
The quick fox
#B979FE · 7.23:1
AAA on black+15% L
#B979FE

Large text — 24px regular or 18.66px bold and above — only needs 3:1, so #922DFD is enough for headings on white. Non-text elements such as icons, chart strokes and focus rings also sit at 3:1 under WCAG 2.2 (1.4.11).

Accessibility — WCAG contrast

Aa
#922dfd on white: 5.23:1
AA ✓ pass · AA-large · AAA
Aa
#922dfd on black: 4.02:1
AA ✗ fail · AA-large · AAA
Against the neutral ladder

Contrast is symmetric, so each row covers both directions: #922dfd as text on that neutral, and that neutral as text on #922dfd.

NeutralRatioBoth directions
White5.23:1AaAa
Slate 505.00:1AaAa
Slate 1004.77:1AaAa
Slate 2004.24:1AaAa
Slate 3003.52:1AaAa
Slate 4002.04:1AaAa
Slate 5001.10:1AaAa
Slate 6001.45:1AaAa
Slate 7001.98:1AaAa
Slate 8002.80:1AaAa
Slate 9003.41:1AaAa
Black4.02:1AaAa
Colour vision deficiency
true color
protanopia · #006CFF
deuteranopia · #006AF9
tritanopia · #776B99

Roughly one man in twelve has some form of colour vision deficiency. If any of the three panels above is hard to tell apart from a neighbouring colour in your palette, add a shape, an icon or a label so the meaning does not rest on hue alone.

Color scale — 50 to 950

A Tailwind-shaped ramp built around this exact hex. #922dfd is pinned to step 500; the rest hold its hue and let saturation ease off at the extremes so the pale end never turns neon.

#F7F1FD
#EFE3FC
#DDC1FB
#C590FE
#A858FD
#922dfd
#7702F2
#6302CA
#4F02A2
#3C0674
#250449
Base = 500Lightest = 50 · #F7F1FDDarkest = 950 · #250449Text step on white = 500
Perceptual ramp — OKLCH

The same eleven steps expressed in OKLCH, where equal lightness numbers actually look equally spaced. HSL ramps go muddy in the yellows and washed out in the blues; this one does not. Modern browsers render it natively — the hex ramp above is the fallback.

50100200300400500600700800900950
oklch tokensclick to select
:root {
  --brand-50: oklch(0.97 0.069 298.7);
  --brand-100: oklch(0.94 0.110 298.7);
  --brand-200: oklch(0.88 0.165 298.7);
  --brand-300: oklch(0.80 0.214 298.7);
  --brand-400: oklch(0.72 0.253 298.7);
  --brand-500: oklch(0.64 0.275 298.7);
  --brand-600: oklch(0.56 0.275 298.7);
  --brand-700: oklch(0.48 0.258 298.7);
  --brand-800: oklch(0.40 0.231 298.7);
  --brand-900: oklch(0.32 0.192 298.7);
  --brand-950: oklch(0.24 0.151 298.7);
}

Colors that work with #922dfd

Not a palette — a role sheet. Each swatch answers one question you will hit while building the component.

Text on it#ffffff
White wins here
Surface#F7F4FA
Tinted page background
Border#D6C0ED
Hairlines and dividers
Muted text#724B9B
Captions on the surface
Accent#9CCC00
Second voice, not a rival
Dark variant#3E017E
Hover, pressed, headers
Light variant#F2E6FF
Selected rows, tints
Dark surface#1C1424
Dark-mode background
Hover#7F09FD
One step down in lightness
Pressed#6E02E0
Two steps down
Disabled#CDC2D8
Chroma pulled out
Focus ring#9C3FFF
Offset from the fill so it reads
Light mode
Everything in its place

Surface, border, heading and body all derive from this one hue, so the screen stays coherent without a second palette.

Primary actionSecondaryBadge
Dark mode
Same hue, inverted

Lightness flips, hue holds. The accent stays the anchor in both themes.

Primary actionSecondaryAccent

In real components

The same eight roles, wired into the interface patterns you will actually build with them. Every state below is a computed value, not a mock-up.

Buttons and states
Save changesHoverPressedDisabled
OutlineSubtleLinkFocused
Form field
you@company.com

Focus ring uses the light variant so the field still reads as one shape.

Send me product updates
Notice
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NewBetaDraft
Data
Storage used68%
Acme LtdActive
NorthwindTrial
GlobexActive

How to use #922dfd

Derived from its contrast, chroma and lightness — not from taste.

Works well for
  • Body text and links on white
  • Primary buttons and calls to action
  • Focus rings, active and selected states
  • Brand accents, badges and data highlights
  • Chart series and data categories
Use with care
  • Full-page backgrounds — tiring over long sessions
  • Pairing with a same-lightness hue — edges vibrate
Minimum size as text on white
Any size
Safe as a fill behind white type
Yes
Safe as a 1px border on white
Yes

Meaning and mood

What a colour in this family tends to signal, and how this particular chroma and lightness change the reading.

creativepremiummodernimaginative

Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft.

At this chroma the association is amplified — it will dominate anything placed beside it, so give it space and use it sparingly. The mid lightness keeps it versatile in both themes.

Worth knowing

Deep violets swallow detail on screens with poor gamma; check it on a cheap laptop panel.

Reads as
  • FormalityLow
  • EnergyHigh
  • Weight42/100
  • TemperatureCool
  • ApproachabilityReserved

Colour associations are cultural and vary by market. Treat these as a starting point for a conversation with your audience, not a finding about them.

Similar colors

One move away from this hex in each direction. Every swatch is its own page.

Color relationships

The wheel positions with their names attached, so you can grab the one you actually need.

Complementary#98FD2D
Analogous left#2D30FD
Analogous right#FA2DFD
Split-complement 1#FDFA2D
Split-complement 2#30FD2D
Triadic 1#FD922D
Triadic 2#2DFD92
Tetradic#FD2D30
On the wheel
Base+30°−30°+120°+240°+180°269°

#922dfd sits at 269°. Every dot is a harmony position and links to its own page in the table alongside.

RGB percentages

Red57.3%
Green17.6%
Blue99.2%
R · 0–255
146
0x92
G · 0–255
45
0x2d
B · 0–255
253
0xfd

CMYK percentages

Cyan42.3%
Magenta82.2%
Yellow0.0%
Key (black)0.8%

Total ink coverage is 125%. Most commercial presses cap around 300% — above that, sheets stop drying properly.

Color previews

#922dfd text on a black background

contrast 4.02:1

Card sample

#922dfd text on a white background

contrast 5.23:1

Card sample

#922dfd on grey

4.77:1

#922dfd on its own surface

4.80:1

#922dfd on its dark surface

3.42:1

CSS3 live lab

Text font color

The quick brown fox

color: #922dfd;
Background color
Panel with #922dfd background
background-color: #922dfd;
Text shadow — hex

Glowing headline

text-shadow: 2px 2px 8px #922dfd;
Text shadow — RGB

Soft neon halo

text-shadow: 0 0 14px rgba(146, 45, 253, 0.45);
Div box shadow
Elevated card
box-shadow: 0 12px 32px -8px rgba(146, 45, 253, 0.45);
Border & gradient
Gradient panel
border: 3px solid #922dfd;
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #922dfd, #FD2DDD);
Gradient text

Gradient headline

background: linear-gradient(90deg, #922dfd, #FD2DA9);
-webkit-background-clip: text;
color: transparent;
Focus ring
Focused control
outline: 2px solid #922dfd;
outline-offset: 3px;
Underline & caret

Marked up text

text-decoration-color: #922dfd;
caret-color: #922dfd;
Left rule
Pull quote or callout
border-left: 4px solid #922dfd;
Ring + tint
Selected chip
background: #F2E6FF;
box-shadow: inset 0 0 0 2px #922dfd;
Conic badge
68%
background: conic-gradient(#922dfd 68%, #e2e8f0 0);

Transparency

What each alpha value actually composites to. The top row is #922dfd over white; the bottom row is the same alpha over a checkerboard, so you can see what survives on a photo or a video.

Bottom row of hexes is the flattened result over white — use those when a design tool refuses transparency, or when you need a solid fallback.

alpha in every syntaxclick to select
rgba(146, 45, 253, 0.5)
rgb(146 45 253 / 50%)
#922dfd80
hsl(269 98% 58% / 50%)
color-mix(in srgb, #922dfd 50%, transparent)
Alpha8-digit hexFlat on white
10%#922dfd1a#F4EAFF
20%#922dfd33#E9D5FF
40%#922dfd66#D3ABFE
60%#922dfd99#BE81FE
80%#922dfdcc#A857FD

Gradients from #922dfd

Six recipes, each built from this hex and shown with the exact CSS that produced it.

Elevation
Same hue, three lightnesses — safe anywhere
background: linear-gradient(135deg, #B169FE, #922dfd 45%, #3E017E);
Duotone
A short hue run reads richer than a flat fill
background: linear-gradient(120deg, #922dfd, #FD0FC5);
Complement sweep
Loud — keep it behind large type only
background: linear-gradient(90deg, #922dfd, #98FD2D);
Spotlight
Hero panels and app headers
background: radial-gradient(120% 120% at 20% 0%, #C188FE 0%, #922dfd 45%, #3E017E 100%);
Soft wash
Section backgrounds that stay readable
background: linear-gradient(180deg, #F7F4FA, #ffffff);
Mesh
Ambient background, no image weight
background: radial-gradient(60% 60% at 15% 20%, #5F6FFD 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(55% 55% at 85% 15%, #FD4BF1 0%, transparent 60%), radial-gradient(70% 70% at 50% 95%, #3E017E 0%, transparent 65%), #922dfd;

Monochromatic scale

Palettes built from #922dfd

Shades — darker

Tints — lighter

Tones — desaturated

Color harmonies

Nearest named colors

Ranked with CIEDE2000 across all 139 CSS keywords. Under ΔE 2 the eye stops telling them apart; over ΔE 10 they are plainly different colors.

#922dfd in the real world

Where a color in this family tends to land, and the interface roles it is usually asked to play.

Industries
Creative toolsFintechBeautyLuxury
Common UI roles
ButtonsLinksFocus statesCharts
Print note

Sits outside most CMYK gamuts — expect a duller press result, or specify a spot ink.

On screens

Holds up across typical panel gamma. Still worth checking on an uncalibrated laptop, where mid-tones shift most.

In dark mode

Too dim on dark surfaces at 4.02:1 — lift it to #9C41FD for body text, or reserve it for fills.

Explore nearby colors

Small, deliberate steps away from this hex — useful when you are hunting for the version of a colour that finally feels right.

#922dfd, answered

What color is #922dfd?

#922dfd is a balanced electric violet, closest to Blue Violet (ΔE2000 3.9). It sits at 269° on the hue wheel with 98% saturation and 58% lightness, which reads as cool.

What is the RGB value of #922dfd?

rgb(146, 45, 253) — 146 red, 45 green and 253 blue out of 255, or 57.3% / 17.6% / 99.2% by channel.

What is #922dfd in HSL and HSV?

hsl(269, 98%, 58%) and hsv(269, 82%, 99%). HSL is what CSS takes; HSV is what your design tool's picker shows, which is why the saturation numbers rarely match.

Is #922dfd a light or a dark color?

It is a dark color. Relative luminance is 0.1508 and perceived brightness is 48%, so white text on it reaches 5.23:1.

Should I use black or white text on #922dfd?

White. It scores 5.23:1 against #922dfd, versus 4.02:1 for black — AA at any size.

Is #922dfd accessible on a white background?

#922dfd on white scores 5.23:1, which clears AA at every size but not AAA.

What is the complementary color of #922dfd?

#98FD2D sits directly opposite on the wheel. Softer options are the split-complements #FDFA2D and #30FD2D, which give the same contrast with far less vibration.

What colors go well with #922dfd?

For interface work: #F7F4FA as the surface, #D6C0ED for borders, #724B9B for secondary text, #9CCC00 as an accent and #3E017E for hover and pressed states. For a palette, the analogous pair #2D30FD and #FA2DFD stays calm, while #98FD2D is the loudest partner.

What is #922dfd in CMYK for printing?

cmyk(42%, 82%, 0%, 1%). This is a screen-to-ink approximation — a color this saturated sits outside most CMYK gamuts and will print duller than it looks here.

Is #922dfd warm or cool?

Cool — it scores 67 on a scale where 0 is the warmest orange and 100 the coolest azure. Nudged warmer it becomes #DE2DFD; nudged cooler, #442BFF.

Which Tailwind color is closest to #922dfd?

The violet family — its 500 step is #8b5cf6, ΔE2000 8.3 away. That is a visible difference, so define #922dfd as a custom token rather than reaching for the built-in.

How do I use #922dfd in Tailwind CSS?

Inline it as an arbitrary value with bg-[#922dfd] or text-[#922dfd], or register the whole ramp under theme.extend.colors.brand so you get bg-brand-500 and friends. The generated 50–950 scale on this page is ready to paste into your config.

What is #922dfd with 50% opacity?

rgba(146, 45, 253, 0.5), or #922dfd80 in eight-digit hex. Over white that composites to #C996FE; over black, #49177F.

Is #922dfd a web-safe color?

No. The nearest web-safe colour is #9933FF, ΔE2000 1.7 away. The palette only matters for legacy displays and some email clients now.

What does the color #922dfd mean?

As a violet, it reads creative, premium, modern. Violet sits between the warmth of red and the calm of blue, so it reads as inventive without reading as risky. Current shorthand for software craft. At this chroma the effect is amplified — it will dominate whatever sits beside it.

What gradient works with #922dfd?

The safest is same-hue elevation: linear-gradient(135deg, #B169FE, #922dfd 45%, #3E017E). For more colour, a short hue run to #FD0FC5 keeps it rich without turning muddy.

Work with #922dfd in the Color Lab

Every tool opens with this colour already loaded.

Every value on this page is computed from #922dfd at request time — conversions, contrast ratios and ΔE distances are calculated, never looked up.